Johnston Square Eviction Risk: Elevated , Baltimore
Tract 24510100100 · Baltimore city, MD · pop 1,541 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
For landlords sizing up the Johnston Square area of Baltimore, census tract 24510100100 carries an elevated eviction-risk score of 7.5/10. That is riskier than about 99% of US census tracts.
51% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 29% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $375 monthly, set against $22,552 in average yearly household income, roughly 20% of income at the averages. Renters make up 61% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Baltimore and the region
Centroid at 39.3032, -76.6047 · click any tract to drill in
Why Johnston Square scores 7.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Johnston Square compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 78
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 84%Socioeconomic
- 24%Household composition
- 96%Racial/ethnic minority
- 76%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 100%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 31.5%Housing insecurity
- 21.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 40.6%Food insecurity
- 42.0%SNAP enrollment
- 19.3%Transit barriers
- 13.3%No health insurance
- 20.3%Frequent mental distress
- 43.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Johnston Square
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 7.2/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Baltimore eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Baltimore City County average of 7.1 and above the Maryland statewide average of 6.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 31.5% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 21.8% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 78th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 24510100100
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